Greetings in Christ. December is a wonderful month to end the calendar year by caring for your missionaries and growing your mission team. How can you bless your missionaries and your mission team this month?
Blessing your Missionaries:
- Send them a special personal Christmas gift this season. Find out what they might be lacking in needed support and send them an extra year end gift. Include something for their children.
- Send them a gift card so they can order a book online.
- Discuss with your mission team what you can do for your missionaries in December.
Caring for your mission team:
- We rarely think about how we care for our mission team. Is there a book that they might like to read as a team? Is there a mission conference that they might consider attending?
Midwest Care Connexion 2025: This conference will be held at Berean Baptist Church in Burnsville, MN on February 21-22nd, 2025. Its focus is providing effective care to overseas cross-cultural servants and their families. This year’s MC2 theme is Hometown Churches Providing Holistic Care with key speakers including Amy Young and the Global Trellis Team. Registration is now open at www.mc2.global. Some churches send their mission team to this conference.
Book Recommendation: The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? By Jim Davis, Michael Graham and Ryan Burge. Our district staff discussed this book at our annual retreat. There are some very helpful ideas here for churches to use.
Adding new Global Partners: I have a recent 2024 list from ReachGlobal about several new pre-deployed missionary staff who are raising support. Let me know if you want to know who they are and if you are looking to add new global partners.
Blessings,